Wires, pipes, and metal rails are produced at incredibly high speeds in factories. Often as fast as 33 feet per second, which makes doing detailed inspections as the materials are produced almost impossible. But researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM in Freiburg, Germany, have… »4/04/14 2:00pm 4/04/14 2:00pm

Remember this day, friends. Remember when the cyborg beetles early first took flight in our labs and flew right into their world domination destiny. Look! Even now one of the brood is stealing a quarter, no doubt for financing purposes. »9/04/11 10:00am 9/04/11 10:00am

If you want to make the best equipment to listen to underwater sounds, where should you look? Most people would point you to the sales department of a high-end audio company, but a group of Stanford researchers are looking to Orca whales for their inspiration. »6/30/11 9:12pm 6/30/11 9:12pm

Researchers have tested a tongue piercing that'll allow paralyzed people to steer their wheelchairs in any direction. All they have to do is move their tongue a specific direction and the wheelchair will follow. »6/08/11 9:00pm 6/08/11 9:00pm

A new test set to hit the market in Britain in the next year aims to tell patients how long they have to live, and naturally that's not happening without controversy. The test measures a person's telomeres, those structures found on the tips of chromosomes. The length of telomeres apparently correlates with how fast a… »5/18/11 2:00pm 5/18/11 2:00pm

I own an Android. You own an Android. Heaps of people own Androids. But apparently 99 per cent of them can be easily attacked, every time we log into a website on an unsecured network. »5/17/11 8:26am 5/17/11 8:26am

Researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center have found that suppressing a single hormone may eliminate the need for insulin injections and may make the condition completely asymptomatic. »2/05/11 10:00pm 2/05/11 10:00pm

This is over the last few years, but a few of them went missing the last 12 months. Thankfully, none were carrying classified data. A blackberry was also lost "in a sensitive foreign country". [AP] »2/12/09 9:10pm 2/12/09 9:10pm

We had to read this twice to be certain, but Verizon is teaming up with researchers at Yale and a P4P Working group in order to speed up peer to peer file sharing. How is this beneficial to Verizon, who has the burden of carrying P2P traffic, which measures at about 1/3 of the internet's throughput already? Because… »3/14/08 3:01pm 3/14/08 3:01pm